Week in Review —

10 stories that aren’t about Apple’s $1 billion in damages

...and one story that is about yesterday's verdict.

While the biggest news event of the week happened late Friday afternoon, 10 other stories on Ars got lots of attention in the beginning of the week. Security Editor Dan Goodin wrote about the declining strength of passwords, and Nintendo Power announced that its last issue would be released in December. We ran a story about early coders who transmitted and received instructions for BASIC programs over radio. And we posted a solid handful of hardware reviews. Check them out if you missed them earlier this week!